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Jeff Bezos was interviewed at the Wired25 Summit and the discussion touched on a myriad of subjects. He discussed topics such as his space company called Blue Origin, sending civilians into space, Amazon, Montessori schools, working with the Department of Defense, why new technological...

United Launch Alliance has chosen Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin to supply the advanced booster engine for the Vulcan Centaur rocket system. The Vulcan Centaur is expected to make its initial flight in mid-2020 and will provide affordable and reliable access to space for ULA customers as the rocket...

Jeff Bezos is an entrepreneur who has dabbled into starting online retail businesses such as Amazon, spaceflight research with Blue Origin and even delivers the daily news with the Washington Post. Now he has decided that he wants to commit to a philanthropic endeavor with the start of a new $2...

Reuters is reporting that several people familiar with the Blue Origin program say Jeff Bezos is throwing big money at the program to get his New Glenn heavy-launch vehicle off the ground. Flight tests for this rocket are at least two years off and this puts him between a rock and space...

Blue Origin continues to make steady progress towards launching tourists into space for the low price of $200K each. Their latest success was the completion of an important test of their altitude escape motor that will allow the capsule to separate itself from the booster if anything goes wrong...

Reuters is reporting that sources within Blue Origin told them tickets for suborbital flights will cost at least $200,000 each. The New Sheppard capsule will carry 6 passengers and travel to an altitude of more than 62 miles for this low ticket price. However, Blue Origin won't say how much it...

Jeff Bezos and his Blue Origin space company are literally shooting for the moon it appears. Blue Origin's business development director recently laid out a plan to land a human on the moon by 2023 and then expand their capability from there and put permanent settlements on the moon. As a matter...

In a first for Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin venture, they have launched their new Crew Capsule 2.0 on the New Shepard rocket and recovered it successfully. Admittedly, it was only a sub-orbital flight, but even that is an accomplishment when you consider the type of capsule and what it's going to be...

The Jeff Bezos space company Blue Origin is getting closer to launching their heavy lift vehicle. They're in the process of creating a specialized launch facility at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station for the rocket. All of this means that Space X is going to get some much needed competition...